Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

books-pileThe Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE. Here are the latest selections.

Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.


African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade:
Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods

edited by Alice Bellagamba et al.
(Cambridge University Press)

Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué
by Laura A. Macaluso
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Diversity Among Architects:
From Margin to Center

by Craig L. Wilkins
(Routledge)

Diversity in Practice:
Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers

edited by Spencer Headworth et al.
(Cambridge University Press)

Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
by James W. Endersby and William T. Horner
(University of Missouri Press)

Malcolm X and Africa
by A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh
(Cambria Press)

Overcome:
My Life in Pursuit of a Dream

by Ellamae Simmons with Rosemarie Robotham
(Mill City Press)

Pushout:
The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Monique W. Morris
(The New Press)

The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
edited by Ezra Tawil
(Cambridge University Press)

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
edited by John Stone et al.
(Wiley-Blackwell)

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